DISTRICT QUARTERLY

SUMMER 2019

VOL. 1, ISSUE 4

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NEWS AND TOP STORIES FROM THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT

Chancellor’s MessageFrancisco C. Rodriguez, Ph.D.

On behalf of the LACCD Board of Trustees, faculty and staff, our heartfelt congratulations to students who graduated in June from the nine LACCD colleges. Record numbers of students completed degrees and certificates, and participated in commencement activities, including about 500 students who were among the first-ever to graduate as part of the L.A. College Promise Program. A new cohort of students will enter our colleges, as the Promise Program begins its third year. Thanks to Gov. Newsom, Assemblymember Miguel Santiago and our state representatives, all California students are now guaranteed two full years of tuition-free education!

Please join me in thanking all of our colleagues who retired from LACCD this spring. We also welcome the new college presidents at L.A. Pierce and L.A. Valley, while recruitments begin this fall for permanent presidents at East and Trade-Tech. Also, coming up on September 22, please join us for a special LACCD Dodger Day event. Your ticket purchase will help us take a swing against student hunger and homelessness. Thanks for a great year and now on to 2019–20!

Graduation Success for Thousands!Tens of thousands of students, family members and guests attended commencement ceremonies in record numbers this year at many of LACCD’s nine colleges. An estimated 30,000 degrees and certificates were awarded this year, including about 500 degrees to students who graduated as part of the first-ever cohort in the L.A. College Promise Program. Special celebrations for Black, Latinx, LGBTQ, L.A. Promise, Nursing Program students and others were held in the weeks prior to all of the colleges’ commencement ceremonies held on June 4. Congratulations to All!

Students receive $500 ScholarshipsA special, districtwide awards ceremony was held May 31 at East Los Angeles College for the first-time presentation of $500 scholarships as part of the Chancellor Francisco C. Rodriguez and Vicky Chang Community College Transfer Scholarship program. Scholarships were made possible by a generous gift to the Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges by Ms. Chang to help 250 students per year who are graduating from any of the District’s nine colleges and transferring to a four-year college.

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Students Get Fired Up Over Culinary Cup 2019!They came, they cooked, they conquered! Congrats to Los Angeles Harbor College’s Culinary Arts Team for capturing the first Culinary Cup title and taking home the Golden Chef’s Hat trophy. Teams from Los Angeles Trade-Technical and Los Angeles Mission colleges competed with Harbor in a Kitchen Battle Royale to test their skills in cooking,

baking and table placesetting competitions. Students from all schools took home medals for first, second and third places while Harbor had the accumulative high points to win the coveted, custom-made trophy. Next year, teams will gather at Mission College for the second annual Culinary Cup to see who brings home the trophy!

LATTC Topping Out HeldThe ceremonial “Topping Out” ceremony for the new, state-of-the-art Culinary Arts Building at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College occurred recently to note a key milestone in the construction project when the last piece of steel I-beam was hoisted into place. District, college and project construction officials gathered in May to sign the ceremonial beam that was installed as part of the project. The two-story, 71,102-square-foot building, with estimated cost of $48.4 million in Measure J bond monies, is expected to be completed by Fall 2020.

LATTC’s Culinary Arts Program is the oldest, continuously operating program of its kind at a community college in the nation, serving an estimated 800 students per year with degrees in culinary arts and professional baking as well as transfers to four-year universities.

Input Sought as District Quarterly Completes First YearThis issue of the District Quarterly marks the first complete annual publishing cycle for the newsletter and we want to hear from you about how to make it better.• What do you like or dislike about it?• What should be included in future issues?• Should the format be changed?• Do you want to receive this by email?Send comments to: William Boyer, Communications Director, boyerwh@laccd.edu.

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LACCD AT-A-GLANCE

» LACCD is the largest community college district in the nation. The District’s nine colleges serve the residents of more than 36 cities and communities from about 900 square miles of Los Angeles County.

» An average of about 250,000 full- and part-time students per year are educated at LACCD’s nine colleges.

» L.A. College Promise Program first-ever cohort of about 500 students graduated in June 2019. Program enters third year with Fall 2019 term and now provides two years of free tuition.

» West L.A. College in June 2019 awarded 49 four-year bachelor’s degrees in dental hygiene. This was the second year that West awarded bachelor’s degrees.

» LA Weekly names East L.A. College’s Vincent Price Art Museum and L.A. Pierce College’s Art and Architecture Gallery two of the top 15 college art galleries in Southern California.

» East L.A. College ranked Number 2 among two-year colleges on the “Top 100 Colleges and Universities for Hispanics” by The Hispanic Outlook on Education’s 2018 annual rankings.

» L.A. Mission College recognized as having one of the best online paralegal studies programs in the nation by Affordable Colleges Online (AC Online), a leader in higher education rankings.

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Mike Fong, President • Andra Hoffman, Vice President • Steven F. Veres, 2nd Vice PresidentGabriel Buelna, Ph.D. • Ernest H. Moreno • Scott J. Svonkin • David Vela • Alfredo Gama Salmeron, Student Trustee

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